Almost My Last Photo
Almost My Last Photo I'm really lucky that it was not my last image. The small viewpoint was full with a photography workshop, so I asked if I could take this quick shot in front of them, then head down the hill to a different spot. I ran to get out of their view quickly, startling a huge male grizzly bear away from the service berry bush he had been feeding on. Two things you never do to a grizzly are startle them or give them the impression that you're challenging them for their food! I saw his massive dark form and heard him crashing off through the brush about 50-70 yards. I froze. I figured that I should let the bear know that I was a human, not a bear, so i called back to the photographers above that if I started screaming, I was getting mauled by a grizzly bear. Later I learned that bears can interpret yelling as an aggressive act, as a challenge. I heard nothing, not a leaf rustling or a stick cracking, until the bear's head popped up from behind the bush, wh...